• 文献标题:   Hot and cold phonons in electrically biased graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   MAO WH, SHANG MY, LU JT
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW B
  • ISSN:   2469-9950 EI 2469-9969
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  • 被引频次:   0
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevB.106.125406
  • 出版年:   2022

▎ 摘  要

Based on first-principles calculations and semiclassical transport theory, we study the nonequilibrium phonon distribution in graphene in the presence of electrical current. In addition to the hot-phonon effect, we observe a cooling of phonon modes at the same time. Interestingly, the presence of electric current along the direction connecting K and K' valleys induces an opposite dipolelike temperature distribution in the two valleys and at the gamma point. This leads to a "high-order " valley polarization of phonon distribution between K and K'. Based on the nonequilibrium phonon distribution, we furthermore study their effect on the lattice parameters and find a negative current-induced expansion coefficient. Similar to graphene's negative thermal expansion, this is rooted in the dominant contribution of out-of-plane acoustic phonons, which do not couple directly to electrons, but gain energy from in-plane phonons through anharmonic scattering.